Long Reach High School

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Long Reach High School
Excellence in Teaching and Learning

School type	Public high school
Established	1996
Principal	Mr. Edmund Evans
Students	1,443
Colors	Purple, Silver, White, & Black
Mascot	Lightning
Location	Columbia, Maryland
Website	http://hcpss.org/lrhs

Long Reach High School is a public high school located in Columbia, Maryland. It is part of the Howard County Public School System.

1 History
2 Administration
3 See Also
4 References

[edit] History

In 1695, Colonel Edward Dorsey, patriarch of an influential Maryland family, purchased a 448 acre tract of land in northern Anne Arundel County. (Howard County did not come into existence until 1850.) The plantation he built first grew tobacco and later, with the opening of a mill by the Ellicott brothers (Ellicott City), grew wheat. Dorsey named his plantation Long Reach. In 1974, Long Reach became the name of one of the new planned city of Columbia's original villages. In 1995, a new high school, Long Reach High School, was built in the village of Long Reach in the city of Columbia. ^[1]